A quick game of musical chairs took place this week atop of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce, the state’s largest “broad-based business organization.”
The Chamber announced Thursday that its current president and chief financial officer, Otis Rawl, would be stepping down, online to be replaced beginning in January by Ted Pitts, right, former chief of staff to Gov. Nikki Haley who just joined the Chamber last month. Rawl has been in the top position since October 2008 and will continue as an advisor to the chamber’s board during the transition.
Prior to working for the governor, Pitts, 42, a commercial Realtor by trade, served in Afghanistan with the S.C. National Guard, ran for lieutenant governor and was a Republican member of the state House (2003-10).
Neither Rawl nor Pitts responded to two days of requests for comment.
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